Hello TL,

Welcome to PC. I agree with you 100%. I'm a nonsmoker gave up 3 years ago. But the one thing that still gets me is the fact that Govts raise taxes on smokes because people are addicted and will still smoke. Also there are people who really enjoy it and want to continue. So they keep putting their hand in their pockets to pay up for their one enjoyment.

Alcohol is repsonsible for 3 times the deaths through domestic violence, group violence, drunk driving and binge drinking.

Don't get me wrong smoking isn't good for you and can cause lots of illnesses, but my grandmother smoked 50 a day for 86 years and died in her sleep of old age. My other grandmother never smoked a stick in her life and died of cancer at 22.

Those who are against it just don't shut up about it. So maybe now if those of us who are against drinking don't shut up we may be heard?...WON'T HAPPEN! WHY?

The governments make billions a year in taxes and the alcohol/wine industry is worth billions a year to the economy. It's worth billions a year in tourism so they won't hobble that horsie.

This I believe is totally wrong and is adding to the death toll daily. It is obvious that the govt care much, much more about money and trade than they do domestic violence and child beatings/deaths...what to do?

Rhiannon